This will be Alan’s first visit to South Clwyd. Having retired to Tenbury Wells, he took up beekeeping five years ago. He is secretary of Ludlow & District BKA.

After putting insulation into the roofs of his hives, Alan began wondering whether he was making things better or worse. That’s when I he started putting digital sensors into his hives making temperature measurement relatively easy.

But, measuring hive humidity is much more difficult, which explains why it has been so poorly understood.

This will be Alan’s first visit to South Clwyd. Having retired to Tenbury Wells, he took up beekeeping five years ago. He is secretary of Ludlow & District BKA.

After putting insulation into the roofs of his hives, Alan began wondering whether he was making things better or worse. That’s when I he started putting digital sensors into his hives making temperature measurement relatively easy.

But, measuring hive humidity is much more difficult, which explains why it has been so poorly understood.

Having grown up in Yorkshire with bees in the garden, Pete has been keeping bees in his own right for over thirty years – first in Suffolk and latterly in Cheshire. He started with two home-made WBCs inherited from his father and now looks after upwards of 20 colonies on five sites along the Dane Valley in East Cheshire. After about twenty years of resistance, his wife finally gave in and they now work the bees together.

Following his retirement, Pete put himself through the various BBKA examinations and eventually achieved the accolade of “Master Beekeeper”. He is still rather diffident about this title, as the bees seem to be the masters a lot of the time!

A warm welcome back to Pete who will discuss how the bees manage to collect the right amount of each commodity and what they do with it.

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11 June – “The hive as a processing centre” Speaker Pete Sutcliffe

11 June – “The hive as a processing centre” Speaker Pete Sutcliffe

Having grown up in Yorkshire with bees in the garden, Pete has been keeping bees in his own right for over thirty years – first in Suffolk and latterly in Cheshire. He started with two home-made WBCs inherited from his father and now looks after upwards of 20 colonies on five sites along the Dane Valley in East Cheshire. After about twenty years of resistance, his wife finally gave in and they now work the bees together.

Following his retirement, Pete put himself through the various BBKA examinations and eventually achieved the accolade of “Master Beekeeper”. He is still rather diffident about this title, as the bees seem to be the masters a lot of the time!

A warm welcome back to Pete who will discuss how the bees manage to collect the right amount of each commodity and what they do with it.

11 June – “The hive as a processing centre” Speaker Pete Sutcliffe
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“Preparing for a honey show – how to win prizes” Speaker John Goodwinhttp://scbeekeepers.co.uk/diary/?mc_id=108
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:43:32 +0000Carol Demmer14 May – “Preparing for a honey show – how to win prizes” Speaker John Goodwin

We are fortunate to welcome John who runs between 20 and 30 colonies in Cheshire.
John is a BBKA National Honey Judge and a BBKA Honey Judge Assessor. He judges numerous honey shows every year and also tries to exhibit at a number of shows
He is a Director of Nantwich Show where he manages the honey show and the honey/bee displays and also manages Cheshire Beekeepers’ annual honey show.

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“Preparing for a honey show – how to win prizes” Speaker John Goodwin

14 May – “Preparing for a honey show – how to win prizes” Speaker John Goodwin

We are fortunate to welcome John who runs between 20 and 30 colonies in Cheshire.
John is a BBKA National Honey Judge and a BBKA Honey Judge Assessor. He judges numerous honey shows every year and also tries to exhibit at a number of shows
He is a Director of Nantwich Show where he manages the honey show and the honey/bee displays and also manages Cheshire Beekeepers’ annual honey show.

Lynfa Davies is a member of Aberystwyth and District BKA and has kept bees for 13 years with her husband, Rob. She became a Master Beekeeper in 2015 and currently has 15 hives. She gets involved with teaching new beekeepers in her association and also regularly gives talks. Those of you who are also members of the BBKA will have seen Lynfa's articles in the BBKA news.

When Lynfa is not beekeeping she works for Menter a Busnes on the Farming Connect programme which is a support and advisory service for farmers in Wales. Her role is to encourage the uptake of new technologies and ideas on farm by working with groups of farmers to undertake projects.

Lynfa's talk will be about Drones: their role within the colony. Drones are often misunderstood and with recent encouragement to destroy drone brood as part of our Integrated Pest Management we tend to think of them as an unnecessary burden on the colony. Lynfa will champion these poor relations and explain just how important they are.

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Monthly Meeting: Lynfa Davies - “The role of drones”

12 March – Lynfa Davies - “The role of drones”

Lynfa Davies is a member of Aberystwyth and District BKA and has kept bees for 13 years with her husband, Rob. She became a Master Beekeeper in 2015 and currently has 15 hives. She gets involved with teaching new beekeepers in her association and also regularly gives talks. Those of you who are also members of the BBKA will have seen Lynfa's articles in the BBKA news.

When Lynfa is not beekeeping she works for Menter a Busnes on the Farming Connect programme which is a support and advisory service for farmers in Wales. Her role is to encourage the uptake of new technologies and ideas on farm by working with groups of farmers to undertake projects.

Lynfa's talk will be about Drones: their role within the colony. Drones are often misunderstood and with recent encouragement to destroy drone brood as part of our Integrated Pest Management we tend to think of them as an unnecessary burden on the colony. Lynfa will champion these poor relations and explain just how important they are.

Monthly Meeting: Lynfa Davies - “The role of drones”
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Members Evening: With John Bowles - WBKA Chairhttp://scbeekeepers.co.uk/diary/?mc_id=105
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:30:45 +0000Carol Demmer19 February – Members evening but delighted to say we will be joined by John Bowles. John is the WBKA Chair and will give a short talk on the WBKA – your chance to find out what the WBKA do for you.
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Members Evening: With John Bowles - WBKA Chair

19 February – Members evening but delighted to say we will be joined by John Bowles. John is the WBKA Chair and will give a short talk on the WBKA – your chance to find out what the WBKA do for you.

Paul keeps 15 colonies on Anglesey and runs the Bangor University apiary which is used for teaching and research purposes. He is involved in supervising a diverse range of bee-related research projects including the evaluation of bee-keeping as a poverty alleviating tool in Uganda and Tanzania, discrimination of bee races in North Wales, identifying links between racial purity and disease resistance and finally two projects developing micro-electronic bee trackers.

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Monthly Meeting : Radio-Telemetric Bee Tracking with Paul Cross

– Paul Cross – Radio-telemetric bee tracking

Paul keeps 15 colonies on Anglesey and runs the Bangor University apiary which is used for teaching and research purposes. He is involved in supervising a diverse range of bee-related research projects including the evaluation of bee-keeping as a poverty alleviating tool in Uganda and Tanzania, discrimination of bee races in North Wales, identifying links between racial purity and disease resistance and finally two projects developing micro-electronic bee trackers.